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A warning, this video from "the new york post" is violent. during a prayer session, men entered with bats to repeatedly attack their rivals. apparently a power struggle has been playing out for months between the old guard voted out of power and the new presidency at the temple. three people were hurt including one police officer. seven were arrested and the group is vowing to strike again. >> remember van jones, the former green jobs czar. he has a new mission, passing laws to give mother nature the same rights as humans. jones is a new board member at a san francisco group known as the allia...

Live in the middle of it in just moments. >> we begin in southern california where an overnight scare about a possible cult suicide turned out to be a false alarm. 13 salvadoran women and children who had been the subject of an intense manhunt were found today safe and unharmed. in fact, they were praying in a public park in palmdale, unaware police were even looking for them. cnn's thelma guitierrez has been sorting out the facts. thelma? >> reporter: don, the group of 13 including eight children and five adults were found right here at this park. they were sitting on the grass in the midst o...

And children who had gone off with a charismatic person from their church and were going to the desert for a prayer session. they were concerned about their safety. >> i don't know if they were letters. they were written exclamations, if you will, proclamations, and the letters themselves could be interpreted in many ways. >> reporter: they doe weren't addressed to anyone. >> as far as i know. >> reporter: some of the language in it could be interpreted of saying good-bye to relatives but that's an interpretation. when you couple that with a missing person report and the concern and the fact t...

>> reporter: you know, that's a really tough thing, don. they're saying that they did the right thing. they felt -- they heard these spouses were very concerned about their children who had left with a woman who was, you know, a member of a cult and so, authorities said that they did what they had to do. here's what they told us a few minutes ago. were they eating? >> they appeared to be praying. this appears to be a prayer session that seems to be elongated. 1:00 a.m. it started. 3:00 a.m. one of our deputies saw them at pete knight high school, visited with them, talked to them. the kids see...

Their children who are gone off with a charismatic person from their church and were going to the desert for prayer session. they were concerned about their safety. >> i don't know if they were letters. they were written exclamations, if you will, proclamations, and the letters themselves could be interpreted in many ways. >> reporter: so they weren't addressed to anyone? >> as far as i know. >> reporter: some of the language in it could be interpreted of saying good-bye to relatives but that's an interpretation. when you couple that with a missing person report and the concern and the fact th...